Ongoing Conversations:  The Summer Global Jazz Intensive Online at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music  is a weeklong online summer intensive program designed for high school students ages 14-18. Using online platforms as an extended global classroom, the program brings performers together from across the world to create the nation’s first global jazz studies summer program.

• Learn from composers and arrangers who are recent graduates of the  Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA  and  UCLA Global Jazz Studies  faculty.
• Participate in masterclasses, composition workshops, and performances designed around the participants’ musical interests and instrumentation.
• Study approaches to composition and improvisation for soloists, small groups, and large ensemble.

UCLA Global Jazz Studies Masterclass Faculty

Arturo O’Farrill Professor

Steven Loza Chair

Eddie Meadows       Adjunct Professor

Hancock Institute Teaching Artists

Paul Cornish Piano

Emma Dayhuff Bass

Roni Eytan Harmonica

Chris Lewis Tenor Saxophone

Aidan Lombard Trumpet

Lenard Simpson Alto Saxophone

Malachi Whitson Drums

Watch  An Introduction to Jazz  featuring  Herbie Hancock, James Morrison and Hancock Institute Fellows

Daily Schedule 9:00 – 9:30am: Welcome and Warm-up 9:30 – 11:00am: Morning Session (Composition Workshops, Theory and Improvisation, Historical Contexts) 11:00 – 11:15am: Break 11:15am – 12:45pm: Master Classes with UCLA Global Jazz Faculty (Arturo O’Farrill, Steven Loza, Eddie Meadows) 12:45 – 2:00pm: Lunch, and informal Q & A Session with Instructors (Topics: College audition prep, Careers in music) 2:00 – 3:30pm: Private Instrumental Lessons and Coachings 3:30 – 4:45pm: Afternoon Session (Composition Workshops, Theory and Improvisation, Historical Contexts) 4:45 – 6:00pm: Listening and Instrumental Studio Classes Family and friends invited to a Saturday virtual performance featuring all students. * daily class schedule is subject to change

The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Class of 2020 RONI EYTAN  Harmonica |  AIDAN LOMBARD  Trumpet LENARD SIMPSON  Alto Saxophone |  CHRIS LEWIS  Tenor Saxophone PAUL CORNISH  Piano |  EMMA DAYHUFF  Bass |  MALACHI WHITSON  Drums These musicians are students at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This intensive, graduate-level college program enables a select group of the world’s most promising young musicians to study tuition-free with legendary jazz artists and educators including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, Christian McBride, Lewis Nash and Danilo Pérez, among others.